Hello everyone. Hope you're having a nice Tuesday. Today I finally got a piece of goat meat from a Pakistanian store and cooked it without a recipie in my trusty pressure cooker. I asked a guy who showed me what kind of spices to get, but he's not from Morocco (I ate a lot of goat my 1st visit to Morocco and loved it). Since them we weren' t able to get it whenever i was in Morocco with my hubby and i was afraid to cook it here just like that. But i finally did (and it's not cheap!) and it's even better than i remember. I didn't use the guy's recipie or the spices - i used the ones i've brought back from Morocco plus an onion and some random frozen veggies and 2 potatoes. Let me tell you - it's way better than steak and now i know why i've been wanting to eat it again for 2 years.

I also fixed one of my non-working phone lines in the kitchen (that's been out for FOUR years!) by myself! Not that it's such a big accomplishment, but the wires in the house are different colors than they're supposed to be. So, i didn't know how but didn't want to pay anybody either.

Who knows, maybe it means something good, inshallah.

Tanya

Oh yeah, I also got some henna today and planning on painting my hands and feet with it for the first time by myself - with my job i can't wear a hijab (never wore it in my life but Mohamed got me 3 of them my last visit even thought i told him i can't wear them or the clothes with my job and the neighborhood i work in). So i figured at least I'll wear henna .

What type of job do you work that doesn't allow you to? Henna is awesome... I found that it is more popular in Tunisia. Even some girls do it in the street for tourists for extra money I've also seen it done at weddings.

Ohhhh how I miss goat meat.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm a Home Health Aid and my patients are very very picky. I work in mostly Italian neighborhood and there's a food delivery girl who showed up first time wearing traditional muslim clothes. She had to go to patients houses and they gave her lots of problems! I wanted to use another word, but didn't. So, after that she wears shorts and a t-shirt and no complains.
I can't do henna like the pros do it, i'll just put in on my hands and feet so they all look orange, lol. I've seen poor Moroccan women do it many times. I feel like doing something radical and making myself feel like i'm in Morocco at the same time since i can't go - still paying for my trips #2, 3 and 4.

Tanya

*tch... without the hair and hooves please.

Icey, it tastes better than it looks!

That's sad. Religious intolerance bites the big one

never had the goat...Said fed me lamb and it was amazing..cuz im so not a fan of it here or at least the way i have had it made here at the restaurant. YOu should have seen the henna Said's mother had for me. they rented this beautiful traditional gown they wear for the weddings and then a woman did the henna on my feet and hands. totally gorious!! I miss all of that so much and loved having it on me when i came home.

melinda

you can fix phone lines? how about cable wires lol cos mine need to be replaced.

Maybe i can, I'm from Russia - i can do anything, lol. Well, almost anything - 4 years for a phone line... says it all. But there's a lot of stuff i can do

"never had the goat...Said fed me lamb and it was amazing..cuz im so not a fan of it here or at least the way i have had it made here at the restaurant. YOu should have seen the henna Said's mother had for me. they rented this beautiful traditional gown they wear for the weddings and then a woman did the henna on my feet and hands. totally gorious!! I miss all of that so much and loved having it on me when i came home.

melinda
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I'm not a fan of lamb - just not used to it - it just smells too much for me. But goat is fine. I couldn't wait to come back home to eat it again today.
And henna - yes, i had it done too. It was too annoying to wait and not be able to eat or wash my hands. My husband had to feed me and keep me from taking the henna off. Next day they did another 'procedure' on me - put vinegar with garlic and olive oil on my hands and feet a few times. I wont' do that again, but i could tolerate it for a couple of hours just to be different and it wouldn't last long.

tanya